in 2008, she was a manager of a wet seal store at this mall in springfield, pennsylvania. a mall where there are more black customers. she did so well at the job, the district manager promoted her to a new store in a higher end mall in the king of prussia. most of the customers there are white. the vice president of the company came to inspect the store. that's when she heard this. >> she looked to my district manager and said that's the store manager? i wanted someone with blond hair and blue eyes. >> reporter: four days later, she was fired. her replacement was a white manager with less experience and poor performance record but paid more. there have been cases like this against a fashion industry before. what makes this different is lawyers say they can trace the discrimination to a vice president at wet seal with an e-mail. the e-mail was forwarded to her. it's from the same vice president who said she wanted a blond manager with blue eyes. the e-mail was, needy versety. african-american dominate, huge issue. when you read that, what did you think? >> i thought this is